Comments on: And That Happened: Thursday’s scores and highlightshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/06/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-118/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:21:23 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: geoknowshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/06/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-118/comment-page-1/#comment-717176
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:09:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717176I wouldn’t call Ventura’s outing “crafty.” Average fastball was 98, he hit 100 several times, and topped out at 101.4. It was just one of those games where the other team was able to put bat on ball, and he’s going to have those at times.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:15:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717136Better than being a Mets fan.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:14:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717134Lamproie de rivière?
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:11:43 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717133He better stay out of Vietnam or he might turn into a dogmeat spring roll!
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:10:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717131If you and Johnny Soda became one person the posts would be superior to any on this website.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:09:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717129Thought that happened when they banned DirtyHarry!
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:40:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717116Now he’s dog meat. I doubt if he’ll ever make it out of AAA again, short of Mathis and Realmuto colliding under a popup.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:34:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717111I am sure you did.
]]>By: cur'68http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/06/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-118/comment-page-1/#comment-717085
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:24:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717085

We’ve stopped throwing games away

That’s the money phrase. They get a lead. They KEEP the lead unless the other team hits it really well and NOT because they gave it back. The one time I can recall this failing in the last 6 weeks was when KC was in town and Reyes of all people threw it in the dirt and Encarnación was unable to pick it for the final out.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:17:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717082I’ve certainly been enjoying the mashed taters but what has really struck me dumb is the improved defence. We’ve stopped throwing games away. By and large, the fielders are hitting their targets and I don’t have to wince as the ball goes bounding into foul territory while the runner advances a gift 90 feet.

Frankly, I’m not sure what to do with Colby Rasmus once he comes back. Gose has proved a fine replacement in the field and his speed on the basepaths makes me miss Rajai Davis less. Even the third-base platoon experiment (If it’s Tuesday, it must be Francisco) hasn’t been the disaster I feared. I know that the angels hovering over the Jays’ shoulders will inevitably depart at some point but for now our boys seem to be making the right decision every time.

Matt Cain has been out the past 3 weeks, and our top HR slugger has been out for about a month now.

Also, Tim Lincecum has been struggling but always finds his groove mid season.

Giants will take this division by 6+ games.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:00:22 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717031Craig’s right about this season, though. No one called it. One commenter, that Dodger fan who called the Lads of BeaverLand “The Dominican Golden Horde” or whatnot, had predicted that they’d be a lot better. I think he had them fighting it out for third or fourth though. He had a bit of a back and forth over it with COPO that I read. His main point it turned out was that he thought the Yankees would be last, not The Beav. But me? I just figured them to be decent. Healthy and watchable with tons of hitting and Bautista and Encarnación eating the pitcher’s lunch. I figured the Beaver pitching was toast, especially once Anthopolous didn’t get Santana, Ubaldo, or Burnett.

That Buehrle, Hutchison, Dickey & Happ (and maybe Stroman, lets wait and see) have been good enough is a staggering thing to contemplate. The infielders defend really well behind these guys and the lineup hits enough to get past it when the pitching fails and balls are in the seats but make no mistake: the pitching is WAY better this season. Its like they are throwing bowling balls since you see so many balls beaten into the dirt. The subtraction of Emilio Bonifacio has really helped, too. I got real tired of seeing him clank balls off his glove and throw outs away.

But the plate discipline: I didn’t expect that. They are walking a ton. Forcing pitchers into the zone and hitting baseballs hard when that happens. That has been a nice bonus. Is it Kevin Seitzer’s coaching or is it the coalescing of talent and health at just the right time? Well, who cares? They are KILLING baseballs right now and I can’t watch it enough.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:58:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717026I ackcherley saw Henny Youngman at a Friar’s Club roast my dad took me to when I was maybe eleven years old. I learned a lot of new words.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:32:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717007The spam that both I and aresachaela were responding to has been deleted. I was actually repeating an old joke (possibly by Henny Youngman) which in my case was unfortunately true.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:25:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-717003The spam that I had originally replied to has been deleted.
]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/06/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-118/comment-page-/#comment-716993
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:16:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716993Ban Roll-on?

Heh. Heh.

Never mind.

Now about the Feesh-Razed game. So the Feesh drop three to the Braves last week, then prang the nosediving Razed for four straight and find themselves more or less tied for first with said Braves yet again. I don’t have time this week for my usual disquisitions – publisher’s deadlines coming up again but as the great Annie Dillard has written, despite some appalling frustrations the life of the mind is the sweetest life possible (though of course I also have to take into account the Mad Mundt’s exclamation “I’ll show you the life of the mind!”). So queeckly: Ozuna homered. The Iron Giant homered but it was a pretty measley homer by his standards, dropping meekly into the first few rows of the Morlock Dome’s dismal left field bleachers. Hardly even worth mentioning.

Meanwhile rookie callup and next doomsday designated Feesh “catcher of the future, catcher of the future, catcher of the future” J P Realmuto (which is not to say a real MUTO as opposed to the feectional MUTOs in Godzilla – those MUTOS’ name stands idiotically for “Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism,” though I can see that it required a level of non-functional imagining comparable to what’s needed to come up with some of the questions ballplayers get asked by onfield correspondents and spawrts tork raydeeo hosts) knocked in a total of three runs with two hits, while his companion callup Justin Bour, who looks like a Tyrrell Corporation replicant of Frank Howard, knocked in one with a single. And what happened to the last Feesh “catcher of the future, catcher of the future, catcher of the future”? He has been designated for processing into Soylent Green.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:56:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716971Watch out you don’t snag your barbels in the lamprey seine.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:55:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716968It was nice to see the Razed’ resident criminal scumbag get lit up for a couple of runs last night. One wonders when Leuke’s bloated ERA will outweigh his novelty value and earn him a DFA so we won’t have to slime our eyeballs watching or reading about him.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:54:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716967Rhyme fail. It’s boom shocka locka boom.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:43:44 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716963Basic Yanks strategy this year, #Tanak and then hope the rookies of Warren + Betances can get them to Robertson. If nothing changes, it’s going to get really bad at the end of the year when the appearances/IP start to catch up to them.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:23:01 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716945Masahiro Tanaka. That was the game right there. His ERA is miniscule, the rest of the Yankees’ starters average 4.48. The shocking thing from the A’s perspective is that the Yankees’ bullpen held up, as the A’s strategy to get the starter out of the game early semi-worked, in that Tanaka finished 6 then departed. But the guys who were roughed up Tuesday night were equal to the task on Thursday night and managed 3 scoreless. The A’s drive down I-95 to Baltimore with the series win at NY.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:18:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716939a rotation of Hughes, Gibson, Meyer, May and Nolasco is what I’m hoping for to, and I think if we have that by early July, we’d have a serious shot at a playoff spot. Trouble is I think you’re right about how the Twins are thinking. I think they’ll squander a month giving Pelfry another chance or giving Correa more time thinking that they can get more for him than a bag of baseballs. No team is going to want him taking a spot in their rotation unless they have no other option (like the Twins last year) and a team in that position is going to be a seller not a buyer.

The Twins may be just good enough if they put their best team on the field for the entire second half of the season, not just the last month and a half, which is what I think they’re going to do.

Here’s hoping they know more than we do.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:51:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716929Meyer will be the better pitcher career wise (most likely), but at this point, May is already on the 40 man roster, so we wouldn’t need to make any extra roster moves. I’d like to see Meyer up soon as well, but I don’t see that happening until we clear up some rotation spots.

I say 7 starts, because we’ll probably try to move someone *cough Correa* in a trade to clear up the rotation spot for May. If Deduno starts to struggle again, I think that Pelfry probably gets the first shot at his spot (I know, I don’t like it any more than you) but I’d like to see Meyer take his spot in the rotation.

So, essentially, I’d like to see a rotation of Hughes, Gibson, Meyer, May and Nolasco (not necessarily in that order).

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:37:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716926Seven, how about one or two. And I would have thought Meyer, but looking at their current numbers, May seems to be doing better. If May or Meyer is put in Correia’s spot I can see the Twins playing about 550 ball the rest of the way which just could be a play off spot, and catching the hot / cold tigers doesn’t seem to be out of the question.

If we have the horses this year we barely have them, which is all the more reason to get them in harness sooner rather than later so there doesn’t need to be the big up hill charge at the end.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:30:23 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716916it saddens this reds fan every time Sean Marshall come into a game knowing we gave up Travis Wood for him his 9.00 ERA and bum shoulder.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:21:21 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-7169060 holds.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:08:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716901So the Twins manage a split with the Brew Crew. It was looking pretty good when Ozzy Arcia hit his Grand Salami. Too bad Correa is terrible and coughed up the lead shortly after it was given to him. If the over/under on remaining starts before Trevor May is called up 7, I’ll take the under. We need to fix this rotation if we’re going to keep trying to compete. If we’re not, then we need to get our young pitchers some “seasoning”…
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Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:07:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=524425#comment-716898The Rays took the “Devil” out of their name and now the Devil is objecting.
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